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" I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream,... "
The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements ... - Page 213
by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788
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Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 346 pages
...maintaining a possession of which he cannot be deprived. How truly may he exclaim with the poet, 1 care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 35-36

British essayists - 1823 - 750 pages
...greatness, and to look around us, oculo irretorto, with resolute complacency, and with dignified composure. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of fair Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...noblest toil, Ne for the Muses other meed decree, They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. sway. That, nature gives; and where the lesson taught Is but to please, can pleasure seem a shut the windows of the sky, [face ; Through which Aurora shews her brightening You cannot bar my constant...
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The Novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe ...: To which is Prefixed, a ..., Volume 10

Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...the most melancholy evenings they had yet passed together, they separated for the night. CHAP. VI. I care not, Fortune ! what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 458 pages
...quoted a little way back, I chanced to light upon another passsage which I cannot help transcribing : " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence: To which is Prefixed the Life of the ...

James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...noblrst toil. Ne for the Muses other meed decree, They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care not, Fortune! what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sty, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face; Yon cannot har my constant...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...quoted a little way back, I chanced to light upon another passsage which I cannot help transcribing : " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through wliich Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...quoted a little way back, I chanced to light upon another passsage wliich I cannot help transcribing : " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho: And A Sicilian Romance

Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...the most melancholy evenings they had yet passed together, they separated for the night. CHAP. VI. " friendship of strangers for comfort, and upon their bounty for the very means of existence, wh shut the windows of the sky. Through which Aurora shows her bright'uing faŤ j You cannot bar my constant...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 4

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...disregard which poets, above all other beings, entertain for the smiles of the fickle deity : — " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace : You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant...
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